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"Do you think he will be ready to help kill the serpent, uncle?" I said, after waiting for some time to see if he would say anything about the attack. "I hardly know, Nat," he replied cheerily; "but we'll soon try him. By the way, use the cartridges with the largest kind of shot, for we must make up for this morning's mistakes. Here, Ebo, we've seen a snake," he said. "Ung-kul, Nat-mi-boi.
"Kill Ung-kul Dit," said Ebo, clinging to his arm. "No, no! Come," replied my uncle. Ebo's club was already in his lingouti, and picking up his spear he too leaped into the water, while I sat down in the boat with the barrel of my gun resting on the gunwale as the sail flapped and the boat rocked softly to and fro.
"Kill, kill," he cried, nodding his head excitedly, and banging the side of the boat with his club; "kill, kill, kill. Kill Ebo, kill Nat, mi boy, kill Ung-kul Dit, kill boat, kill, kill. No, no, no!" "Well done, Ebo!" cried my uncle laughing. "Your English is splendid. Good boy." "Ebo, good boy," cried the black. "No, no, no. Kill, kill."
After the black had worked himself up into a perspiration, instead of, as I expected, bursting out laughing, he kept on pointing to the land, crying, "No, no, no!" and then, "Kill bird, kill man, Nat, mi boy, kill Ung-kul Dit; kill Ebo. No, no, no!" "You mean that the savages will kill us if we land?" I said.
"It is what I have always feared, Nat," said my uncle quickly. "Quick; put big-shot cartridges in your gun. We will not spill blood if we can help it, but it is their lives or ours, and we must get safely back home." "What shall we do now?" I said huskily. "Wait and see what the enemy mean to do, and " "Hi, yi, yi Hi, yi, yi Hi, yi, yi. Hey. Nat, mi boy. Ung-kul!" came shrilly through the trees.
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